Yes, we're technically subtropical in Houston and get a decent amount of rain, but that hasn't stopped subsidence: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston

Yes, we're technically subtropical in Houston and get a decent amount of rain, but that hasn't stopped subsidence: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/For-years-the-Houston-area-has-been-losing-ground-7951625.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/... Here's an interactive site from Texas' state water plan that has a really really great breakdown: https://2017.texasstatewaterplan.org/statewide https://2017.texasstatewaterplan.org/statewide Texas has virtually no natural lakes, we have to construct anything we want to drink from (or pump it from the ground). Actual billions of dollars are being poured into these drinking supplies, and I can't even count how many times election season includes a "water projects" ballot measure. We're very fortunate to live on the coast of a very warm body of water. I foresee more water projects to capture the moisture from the gulf here, but yeah I have no clue what the dry states are going to do.